Bottle-closure.



No. 805,123. PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905. G. E. DUCK.

BOTTLE CLOSURE.

APPLICATION FILED 11511.23, 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application filed January 23,1905. Serial No. 242,218.

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. Book, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Closures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bottles and bottle-closures, and has among its objects to provide a bottle of an improved construction that will enable a variety of sealing devices to be employed and which may be thoroughly cleaned with the devices now used in bottle establishments, to further provide abottle having a side discharge-opening, which latter is in a direct line with the passage from the neck to the interior of the body of the bottle.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 illustrates a front elevation of a bottle-neck and a portion of the body of the bottle and shows the opening in the bottle neck. Fig. 2 illustrates a longitudinal section through the neck and a portion of the body and illustrates the position of the neckopening with respect to said body. Fig. 3 illustrates a similar view with the sealing device applied to the bottle-neck. Fig. 4 illustrates a perspective view of one form of sealing device for closing the bottle-opening and Fig. 5 illustrates a sectional view through the bottle-neck and the sealing device, the section being taken on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1 designates the body of a bottle, which may have any shape desired, but which in the present instance is circular in cross-section and at its upper end is provided with converging walls 2, whichform a contracted neckpassage 8, from which the neck 4 extends laterally in an inclined direction above the body portion. In the present instance this inclined neck has an exterior form which is circular in cross-section; but it is to be understood that it may have other forms.

The upper side 5 of the inclined neck extends in a direction so as to project over the contracted passage 8, and directly over said passage the inclined neck has a side opening 6, which is in line with the center of the bottle-body. Aseat 7 is provided on the exterior of the upper side 5 of the neck adjacent the side opening 6, and in the present instance this seat has the form of a circular recess 8.

The extreme end 9 of the neck beyond the side opening 6 is permanently closed.

It will be seen that the side opening is in that side of the neck which projects over the contracted passage 3, so that it will have a central position over the interior of the bottle-body, and thereby permit direct access to the bottle through said opening.

The sealing device may also be constructed in a variety of forms, as the opening is located in the side of the neck and aflords opportunity for closures of various "forms.

One form of closure is illustrated in the drawings and comprises a metallic plate having a circular head 10 and laterally-projecting arms 11 and 12, which extend from the opposite sides of the head. The arm 11 is provided in the present instance with a plurality of slits or slots 13, which extend in a crosswise direction, while the arm 12 is provided with a plurality of tangs or projections 14 for engagement with said slots in the arm 11, as will presently be described. The inner side of the circular head 10 carries a sealing-disk 15, of some suitable material-such as cork, paper, or other desirable substance which will contact with the seat 7 on the exterior side of the bottle-neck. If the recess 8 is provided in the bottle-neck, the sealingdisk 15 will fit within the same and seat around and over the opening 6, as seen in Figs. 3 and 5. When thus seated in the recess, the sealing-disk cannot be moved laterally, and the arms 11 and 12 are drawn around the exterior of the inclined neck, with the arm 12 overlapping the arm 11, and the tangs or projections 14 will engage the slots 13 and hold the metal plate in the drawn position over the sealing-disk, so as to maintain the same in a compressed condition on the seat 7.

I am aware that it has been proposed to provide bottles with inclined or laterallyprojecting necks but all such devices within my knowledge are open at the ends. They have no side openings and have no openings in a direct line with the body so that a straight brush or instrument can be inserted through the side opening into the body.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bottle having a body with a contracted throat-passage at one end and also having an inclined neck which is closed at its end and whose side wall extends laterally over the contracted throat-passage and is provided with an opening in its inclined side which has position over the center of the body, and an exterior sealing-disk seated against the inclined side wall of the neck around said openin 2. A bottle having a body and a neck which is inclined with respectto said body and closed at its end and which has an opening in its side which is centrally located above the body, and the exterior of said inclined neck having an exterior seat adjacent its side opening, and an exterior sealing device seated around said side opening and having arms which extend circunrierentially around the inclined neck.

A bottle having a body and a neck CHARLES E. DUCK.

Vitnesses CHARLES B. MANN, J12, G. FERDINAND Vocr. 

